Public pounding Buccaneers against Cowboys for NFL season opener

Bettors are pouring wealth connected the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for Thursday’s play opener against the Dallas Cowboys.

The defending Super Bowl champions person climbed to 9-point location favorites against Dallas, up from -7½ and -8 earlier successful the week. The enactment opened months agone astatine Tampa Bay -6½.

Boyd Gaming and the Golden Nugget were astatine -9½ connected Thursday afternoon. Circa Sports was the lone sportsbook holding astatine 8½.

“We’re decidedly Cowboys fans tonight,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “I anticipation aft the crippled we’re saying, ‘How ’bout them Cowboys.’”

Other sportsbook directors agreed that they were seeing one-way enactment connected the Buccaneers, who person brought each starter back, including seven-time champion backmost Tom Brady, from the squad that bushed Kansas City 31-9 successful the Super Bowl. Also, the Cowboys volition beryllium without standout defender Zack Martin due to the fact that of a affirmative COVID test.

Liability is besides piling up connected Tampa Bay arsenic the archetypal limb of teasers and money-line parlays.

“Very one-sided to the Bucs,” Westgate SuperBook sportsbook manager John Murray said via substance message. “Teasers, money-line parlays each starting with the Bucs. Line has been pushing up each week betwixt the measurement of Bucs bets and Zack Martin being ruled out.”

The Buccaneers were arsenic precocious arsenic -500 connected the wealth enactment astatine Resorts World and arsenic debased arsenic -420 astatine BetMGM connected Thursday afternoon. The champion terms connected the Cowboys was +375 astatine Caesars Sports and the Wynn; the lowest was +325 astatine BetMGM.

“It’s each Bucs,” South Point sportsbook manager Chris Andrews said via substance message. “Straight, parlays, teasers, wealth line.”

Esposito said the crippled was attracting a coagulated handle, arsenic to beryllium expected with these 2 teams.

“The volume’s been tremendous, benignant of pursuing what we saw the past play for assemblage football,” helium said. “It’s the defending champs and Brady against America’s Team.”

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